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BUTTONED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike
Synonyms:
buttoned; fastened
Classified under:
Similar:
botonee; botonnee ((of a heraldic cross) having a cluster of three buttons or knobs at the end of each arm)
button-down (of a shirt; having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons)
Antonym:
unbuttoned (not buttoned)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb button
Context examples:
"I'm glad of it," he answered, with a look of relief, then buttoned her gloves for her, and asked if his tie was straight, just as he used to do when they went to parties together at home.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He was buttoned up, mighty trim and tight, and must have taken a great deal of pains with his whiskers, which were accurately curled.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of the buckles.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was high-shouldered and bony; dressed in decent black, with a white wisp of a neckcloth; buttoned up to the throat; and had a long, lank, skeleton hand, which particularly attracted my attention, as he stood at the pony's head, rubbing his chin with it, and looking up at us in the chaise.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
As I approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
